French terror attack: Decapitation victim was 'suspect's boss'
Yassin Salhi is suspected of driving one of the delivery service's vehicles into the factory grounds during attack
Saint Quentin Fallavier, France: The man decapitated in an attack Friday on an industrial gas factory in eastern France was the boss of the suspect now in police custody, legal sources said. The head of the victim, who ran a delivery service, was found pinned to the gates at the American-owned Air Products factory in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier. It was surrounded by two Islamist flags. His body was found inside the factory, the site of what French President Francois Hollande called a terrorist attack.
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"The intent was without doubt to cause an explosion. It was a terrorist attack," said French President Francois Hollande in Brussels, cutting short an EU summit to chair emergency meetings in the French capital.
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Yassin Salhi, 35, is suspected of driving one of the delivery service's vehicles into the factory grounds during the attack. Though access to the facility is restricted because it contains dangerous substances, the delivery company had clearance to enter.
Israel urges French Jews to flee
Meanwhile, An Israeli minister on Friday urged French Jews to flee to the Jewish state after a suspected Islamist attacked a factory near Lyon and pinned a severed head to the gates.
"I call on the Jews of France - come home! Anti-Semitism is rising, terror is increasing," immigration minister Zeev Elkin, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rightwing Likud party said in a statement.
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"This is a national mission of the highest priority."
At least one suspected Islamist launched a daylight raid on an industrial gas factory in France Friday.
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The victim was identified as a businessman from the suburbs of Lyon. Netanyahu sparked controversy by encouraging French Jews to move to Israel in the wake of January's Paris attacks that left 17 dead, including four at a Jewish supermarket.